Dr. Michael Drummond is an Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. He is passionate about how electrical energy is generated and stored, teaching in innovative ways, and lab safety. The Drummond Lab’s research interests include the development of organometallic and coordination complexes capable of efficient electron shuttling in new battery materials and the synthesis of biomimetic catalysts with reactivity towards small molecules. Students conducting research in his lab will learn air-free synthesis, a variety of instrumentation for the characterization of molecules, and electrochemistry.

Michael was born and raised in the mountains of Colorado before discovering a love of chemistry at Azusa Pacific University, where he earned a B.S. in Chemistry. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying the effects of hydrogen bonding interactions in non-heme iron enzyme models with Professor Alison Fout. He then moved up the road to the University of Illinois Chicago to work as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher developing new battery materials with Professor Neal Mankad. Michael returned to APU as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 2020, and moved to Saint Mary’s College in 2022.

In his spare time, Dr. Drummond also enjoys time with his family, running, playing tennis, eating tacos, and playing to board game Wingspan.